Sigfrid of Wearmouth

Sigfrid of Wearmouth was a deacon and disciple of Saint Benedict Biscop. In 686 he was chosen abbot of Wearmouth (Monkwearmouth) in Northumbria by Saint Ceolfrith and the monks. Saint Bede describes him as a man skilled in Holy Scripture, of excellent character and wonderful continence, though his body was weakened by an incurable lung illness.

Both the abbot Sigfrid and the founder Benedict Biscop fell gravely ill; Sigfrid was carried on a litter to Benedict's bedside so that they could see each other before they died. Benedict then made Ceolfrith abbot of both monasteries. Sigfrid reposed two months later, in 688 (689 in other accounts). He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 22 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 4 September of the civil calendar.